A/N: The first chapter I wrote turned out to be exactly 6666 Japanese characters.
Hello everyone. Fleurety here.
The fog upon my mind has cleared. Im feeling great.
My ladys brain still seems to be blue-screening. I give her a smile and walk over to stand beside her.
Not right next to her, of course. My place is one step behind her.
Then my lady finally reboots, jerking her head around at like a broken phonograph.
W-w-w-w-haaaat?! At last, she blesses with her adorable voice. W-why did you, umm
I am Fleurety, milady.
F-fuh fluretti?
If youre not used to it, feel free to call Letty. Oh yes, which reminds , I have not yet asked for your na. My apologies.
I am Sharon de hold on, why are you standing next to ?! And what do you an, your lady?! Lady Sharon says, her hands flapping so much it looks like shes doing sign language in fast-forward.
I give her a few gentle taps on the shoulder and a smile.
Of course, that is because Ive decided to serve you, lady Sharon. Or might you be dissatisfied with , perhaps? I reply.
N-no, thats not what I ant! I
A mont, please, Sharon.
And then so asshole decides to interrupt our heartwarming mont, right when I and my cute-as-a-button lady were in the middle of affirming our master-servant relationship.
Sir Joel! Lady Sharon says, turning around in surprise.
With his air of composure and striking looks that would probably make him quite attractive to a certain demographic, the guy looks like the quintessential fairy tales prince, even with the slight bit of confusion showing on his face at the mont.
Oh, right, I almost forgot. Judging from the architecture and clothing I see around , this worlds probably sowhere around the Middle Ages, or maybe nearing the end of it. I also see light sources floating in the air that use no electricity, so I guess wed been magically summoned.
Excuse , Sharon. Would you allow a few monts to talk to her?
yes, your highness. Milady answers, looking strangely ek? Her face now seems sort of stony-looking, and her voice sounds stiff. Does she not like this man?
This cannot stand. For milady Sharon, this lowly maid Fleurety shall send this brute away from the mortal coil if not for the fact that she called him your highness. A wrong move here might just worsen miladys standing.
Miss, I would ask for your na. He says, his question sounding more like a command. The guys obviously used to giving orders.
Yes, milord, I am Fleurety.
My na is Joel, and I am the second prince of this country, Argrey Kingdom. Miss Fleurety do you understand what is happening at the mont? Why have you decided to serve miss Sharon? You have been summoned here
Thats right! Theres no way that halfwit girl could get a Partner first! There must be sothing wrong!
So today is the day for interruptions, is it
This ti, the one who spoke up was a tall, brown-haired boy. Ignoring the fact that he has just insulted milady Sharon, just his frivolous-looking face alone is already criminal enough for a sentence of a million deaths. Sir Joel is a real prince in comparison.
Karl, enough! Youre in the presence of his highness!
One of the knightly-looking guys standing on guard scolds him.
Be quiet, elder brother! In this academy, youre just an imperial knight! You cant tell what to do!
And now theyre getting into an argunt.
What a pain Im not so good at rembering peoples faces and nas, so having so many new characters showing up all at once is way more than my mory can handle.
Well have her choose again after she gets a full explanation! Once she knows who that idiot girl is, theres no way shed choose soone so inferior! Karl says, all the while ogling from top to bottom without even trying to hide his gaze.
I must say, this doesnt feel very comfortable. My mother had been pretty developed so Id like to think I inherited a bit of that, but my body is not for your pleasure, Karl.
Beside, my own pair is just about average. I would have thought lady Sharons huge tracts of land would make the guys a lot happier, right?
Anyway, I have to say my ladys bosom is truly amazing not like Id say it out loud, though.
Milady, your breasts are breathtaking. May I touch them?
W-w-what are you talking about?!
My, I accidentally let loose my true thoughts. Unbefitting of a maid indeed, but it cant be helped. Theres no way anyone can possibly dislike a cute big-boobed girl, be they n or won.
You shut up already! The knight from earlier pinned Karl to the ground, eliciting a grunt from him. Your highness, I must apologize for my brothers discourtesy
Pay it no mind. As Karl said, he and I are but classmates of the sa year at the sa school. He has not insulted . Please let him go. The prince says.
understood. My apologies to lady Sharon, as well. The knight says, turning toward milady. And blinks his eyes several tis as if not comprehending the sight before him.
No surprise there. He didnt seem to have heard our talk, but he is seeing milady turning crimson-faced as she covered her chest with both hands.
Noticing sothing strange, lord Joel and several others turn puzzled eyes on us. In place of milady whos looking seconds away from blowing her fuse, I pinch my skirt and smile, trying to pass the matter off as nothing important.
umm, excuse !
I hear a voice, sowhat nervous, coming from within the summoned (and subsequently ignored) classmates of mine. Sei is speaking with his hand raised.
What will happen to us?
ah.
***
After the summoned Earthborn students received a quick summary, they were guided into the academys guest rooms to rest. The detailed explanation would be done tomorrow.
The academy had prepared enough private rooms for all of them, but anxious as they were, many had asked to stay in groups of two or three people. Each group was now having whispered discussions of their own in their respective rooms, talking about the days events.
In a room for two, Fua was the first to speak.
Hey, Ginko whats going to happen to us?
Yeah Ginko replied to her best friend half-heartedly. With what had happened, even the strong-willed girl was finding herself at a loss for words.
Is there a way to return to their old world? Would they be forced to live in this one? Would they ever see their parents again? What would their lives beco?
In this world, fifteen was the age of majority, while the girls were only fourteen this year. Even here, they were still considered children.
Their anxiety felt crushing. In an attempt to look away, to not have to face their unease, both began to search for sothing to talk about. Anything at all.
Umm so, about Kamishiro-san. Has she always been like that?
I dunno. We never talked much she walked out so confidently back then. Alone. Its like
Her personalitys switched completely, the two shared the thought. Bewildered as they were of Kamishiros actions, they still felt as though their worry had lightened, just a little bit, as they recalled the sight of their classmate.
And also
Yeah
Has that always been her given na?
They spoke in a chorus, the sa question passing through their minds at the sa ti.
anwhile, while many of the students were distressed, there were several girls who shared their anxiety only on the surface. Inside, they were shouting with joy.
These girls knew what this world was.
There was a certain oto ga with the title The Lines of Light, Darkness, and Love.
The ga was set in The Sandbox World of Fanteria, or to be more precise, the Argrey Kingdom inside of it.
Ten years ago, this ga was first released for household ga consoles.
Despite the content being a typical oto romance ga, it had enjoyed a period of popularity among gaming enthusiasts thanks to its extrely detailed setting and dialogue writing for its characters.
The gas main character was an Explorer who would find her true love among the many, many capture targets. At the end, she, together with her chosen lover, would create a new country of Argrey. The ga was rather unusual due to having an elent of city-building in its gaplay.
Three years after the first ga, the second iteration, Light, Darkness, and Love 2 was released.
The developer was a no-na company, and the first ga hadnt been exactly a best-seller, so gars were rather justifiably suspicious of the second title. But once more, the ga made waves on the internet.
The second gas story was set two hundred years after the birth of Argrey Kingdom, in the Magic Academy newly built in the capital city.
Similar to the first, the amount of possible dialogue were so nurous as to make walkthroughs useless. The ga gained popularity for its high replay value, and different from its predecessor, it even had an elent of country-managent such as allowing the player to make changes in the schools educational content or pass legislations. The ga was such a mish-mash nobody knew what the target audience was.
And another three years afterward, the ga Light, Darkness, and Love Online was released.
The second ga had looked as though it took the budget of an AAA ga to be made, but there hadnt been any news about it selling particularly well. And yet, the third ga seed to have gone a step even further beyond. Rumors began to circulate on the internet that the gas were being made as a hobby of so millionaire sowhere.
This ti around, the gas peculiarity was ntioned right in its title: it was an online ga.
Like a certain hunting ga, this ga allowed people to join password-protected rooms to play in groups with a maximum of four people, and they could play as female protagonists in the sa ga world.
The ga was set in the magic academy of Argrey Kingdom, another two hundred years after the setting of the last ga. The player played as one of the summoned heroines, and their goal was to capture one of the target male characters. Except for when playing with friends, there were cases where two or more people chased after the sa target, which sotis even led to fla wars on the internet. And with its inclusion of an elent of action-RPG gaplay, the ga was the very definition of chaos.
And then, at the end of last year, the fourth ga, Light, Darkness, and Love Online 2 The Millefeuille of Love, was released.
Once more, the ga was so detailed people were outright making conspiracy theories now, about how the developer could afford making a ga at such a scale when they had absolutely no other intellectual property to make money from.
The newest ga was, once again, an online ga, and this ti it allowed over 10 people to play together at the sa ti.
The stage was set in the magic academy after another two hundred years had passed. A whole middle-school class with eight female students and eight male students, for a total of sixteen, was summoned to the academy. The player would either play as the first heroine, a daughter of a viscount, or choose from one of the sixteen students.
The first twist of this ga was that the player could choose to play as one of the male students.
Perhaps the ga had intended to attract more male players with this decision, but in case the player chose a male student, not only could they choose to seduce one of the villainous female characters, they could even go for the male characters (though the difficulty in this case was stupidly high). This had resulted in the ga attracting a lot of girls and won who wanted to see sausages rubbing together.
Another twist was that the ga was a 3D open world ga, sothing very rarely seen in this genre. There was a character creation process for the player character too, and the students that would beco NPCs would be randomly created from a pool of several thousand different appearances and personalities, and even they could be capture targets. The insane degree of freedom had induced many an exasperated laugh from the players.
The strangest thing about this series was that despite all the developnt cost, there had been no advertisent at all. The developer had also refused any and all reporters, from ga magazines or otherwise. The series beca legendary on the internet as tic gas that normal people would never know about.
And now, the middle-school girls who knew about the gas had been summoned into exactly that world, just like how it had gone in the fictional story. They did notice that there were seventeen people summoned, different from the sixteen in the ga, but their excitent had quickly overpowered their vague puzzlent, and they soon forgot about it.
There were five main capture targets, plus extras. (The age ntioned was the age they were at during the current school year).
Yuri de von Argrey, 19 years old. The Crown Prince of Argrey Kingdom.
Joel de von Argrey, 15 years old. The Second Prince of Argrey Kingdom.
Andy de rcia, 24 years old. Son of a marquis. Commanding officer of the imperial knights.
Yohanne de Michel. 14 years old. Son of a marquis. Fourth-year student of the magic academy.
Eric Marsaw. 27 years old. A baronet. A teacher at the magic academy.
The extras were non-player characters that the player could talk to.
Serving as the villains were three noble girls, plus extras.
Emilia de von Argrey. 13 years old. The first princess of Argrey Kingdom.
Camilla de Reese. 20 years old. Daughter of a duke. Guest lecturer at the magic academy.
Sharon de Michel. 15 years old. Daughter of a marquis.
Other antagonists included so other player characters.
No matter who the players target was, the villain girls would always be heavily involved, making trouble for the player. As there was no precise route to follow, the players hated these villain girls.
The students who knew of this ga world began to think.
Within one year, they had to find a Partner and capture them.
But in case there was another Player Character beside them, then there was a risk that this other PC would be chasing after the sa target as them, or making trouble for them.
That ant they must not let anyone else know that they were a PC. Information was the most powerful weapon here, and by hiding what they knew, they would also be keeping the other PCs in check.
Among the female students, the girl nad Kamishiro had offered herself as a Partner candidate to Sharon, one of the villainesses. They suspected her to be a Player Character too, but to confirm it would require them to reveal their own knowledge. It was risky.
As they hid behind their smiles and their nervousness, the girls quietly sharpened their fangs. They were ready to put all they had into this, to hold nothing back.
So began a deadly ga of romance.
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